Alabama remedial education: One-third of students unprepared for college

By eCampus News staff and wire reports

July 14th, 2011

Over a third of Alabama high school graduates have been found unfit for college, the Huffington Post reports. According to the latest numbers collected by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE), 34.4 percent of students enrolled in a two- or four-year college program in 2010 required at least one remedial course in math or reading, the Washington Examiner reports. Hardly an isolated incident, the state statistic matches the national one determined by the Department of Education…